Jocelyn was a teacher at the Dalton School in NYC, and has been working with constructivist, experiential project-based learning since her undergraduate days. She wished she had known what engineering was as a kid; she started this company so other kids would. She grew up in Honolulu and her preferred state is oceanic immersion. She used to front a rock band and nothing can get between her and Chop’t.

Samantha fell in love with programming during her senior year at Columbia. Since then, she's been on a mission to introduce every kid to this amazing skill. She's been influenced by the likes of John Holt and Ivan Illich and cares deeply about empowering kids to learn on their own. She hails from the proud city of Detroit and can probably beat you barefoot in a marathon.

Ana is the smiley face behind the Hopscotch hello email. She is a self-taught coder and game designer — she’s currently developing her own point and click adventure! She’s lived in six different countries and appropriately majored in International Relations. She joined Hopscotch because she thinks learning how to code is necessary in our changing world.

Mexican designer, bedroom musician, GIF maker. Originally educated as an architect, he started playing around with websites and computers by changing files’ extensions and opening them on a text editor when he was 11. Rodrigo believes the Internet can help us understand the world better and wants to make Hopscotch a tool for infinite creative expression.

At 14, Nazarí learned to program so he could make a custom world for Ultima Online. Now he’s helping kids everywhere create their own worlds with Hopscotch. Nazarí spends his spare time writing game engines (he’s written two so far!) and building his own games, including his biggest success: nicefart.io. Nazarí was born and raised in the Canary Islands and loves to take long walks in the mountains with his dogs.